> I don't think I missed anything. In his most recent post Mercury > Thirteen spoke of multiple 16 bit programs running at the same time. > That it's not EMM386 ... that is a supervisor layer for multiple virtual DOS > machines.
multitasking is certainly far from trivial, but will not fill a floppy disk. I was referring to the fact that the kernel is ~60 K, JEMM386 30K, a 2nd included kernel 60 K again, leaving 1 MB for the hypothetical multitasking supervisor. not that we will see one anytime soon .... Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
